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Support Mastering Perl at the Swiss Perl Workshop | Mastering Perl
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Support Mastering Perl at the Swiss Perl Workshop. Posted by brian d foy. On August 26, 2014. If you’ve enjoyed this website, you have the chance to show your support and to help the global Perl community. The organizers of the 2014 Swiss Perl Workshop. Are also trying to organize the Perl community in Switzerland. As part of that, we are running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a Mastering Perl. While I’m there. A signed copy of Mastering Perl. Sponsor a local student to attend the class. Learning Perl St...
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Examining Quicksort | Mastering Perl
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Posted by brian d foy. On July 17, 2014. Earlier this year, Emma Howson posted a nice explanation of how Perl sorts a list. In short, Perl used to use quicksort and now uses mergesort. She then shows how each of those works. I’ve never bothered to explain those in the Learning Perl. Class I don’t even mention that there are different sort types or that the sort. First, I wrote a small program to print the progress of Perl’s. To see how it chose elements to put into. B } @array; say " @result - @result"; }.
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The Storable security problem | Mastering Perl
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The Storable security problem. Posted by brian d foy. On December 28, 2012. Recently, people have moved to close, or at least document, a security issue with Storable. This core module serializes and deserializes Perl data structures, and, as in many places in Perl, tries to be more helpful than we really want. In Mastering Perl. I talk about lightweight persistence in Chapter 14; Storable. Is a big part of that chapter. There are two major problems. Someone can force Storable. It doesn’t really ma...
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Mastering Perl | Page 2
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The Data: Dumper stack smash (fixed). Posted by brian d foy. On October 1, 2014. Problems with data serializers was a major change to Mastering Perl. The Storable issue with malformed inputs. Was known for a long time but nobody much cared about it. Now it’s Data: Dumper. 8216;s turn. Read more ». Support Mastering Perl at the Swiss Perl Workshop. Posted by brian d foy. On August 26, 2014. If you’ve enjoyed this website, you have the chance to show your support and to help the global Perl community.
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The Alpaca is on its way | Intermediate Perl
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The Alpaca is on its way. Posted by brian on May 14, 2012. Now has Intermediate Perl, Second Edition. Just this morning, in time for the open of business on the East Coast, I finished fixing the final reviewer comments. I went through over 300 pages of extensive comments:. 320 pages of this, from three different reviewers. The book isn’t available for pre-order yet, but O’Reilly should add it to their Rough Cuts. But I haven’t seen it available anywhere else yet. We’re working on that.
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Fixing bugs instead of explaining them | Intermediate Perl
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Fixing bugs instead of explaining them. Posted by brian on May 14, 2012. David Golden, one of the reviewers for Intermediate Perl. Gave me extensive comments about one of the test program examples in the book. I made a simple example using Test: Output. A module I sometimes use but didn’t write. It solved my needs at the time, but it has some issues. Perl’s output is complicated, and the simple. In Test: Output: Tie. Doesn’t cover all the cases. The Alpaca is on its way. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Second printing available | Intermediate Perl
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Posted by brian on June 12, 2013. 2nd edition’s second printing is now available. This contains fixes for almost all of the reported errata, but it otherwise the same content. If you’ve bought your ebook through O’Reilly, you should have it available in your O’Reilly account. Look at your O’Reilly products list. I have the Alpaca under mine and I can immediately download the format I want or send them to Dropbox. The Alpaca gets a second printing. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Required fields are marked *.
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The Alpaca gets a second printing | Intermediate Perl
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The Alpaca gets a second printing. Posted by brian on June 1, 2013. A second printing means that people are buying the book, enough so that the publisher will commit a bunch of money to create a couple of palettes of books that they’ll send to the distributor and that the distributor will send out to shops. That means that one of the authors goes through all of the errata. Clarifying local: lib and cpan in Chapter 2. Second printing available →. June 2, 2013 at 8:14 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Pre-co...
